Octopai

APRIL 19, 2021

Aptly named, metadata management is the process in which BI and Analytics teams manage metadata, which is the data that describes other data. In other words, data is the context and metadata is the content. Without metadata, BI teams are unable to understand the data’s full story. Donna Burbank. TDWI – David Loshin.

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Smart Data Collective

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Big data technology has changed the future of marketing in a multitude of ways. A growing number of organizations are leveraging big data to get higher ROIs from their organic and paid marketing campaigns. As a result, companies around the world spent over $52 billion on data-driven marketing solutions in 2021.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 8, 2024

Nearly 10 years ago, Bill James, a pioneer in sports analytics methodology, said if there’s one thing he wished more people understood about sabermetrics, pertaining to baseball, it’s that the data is not the point. The point is to use the data like a razor to cut through false convictions to find the truth.

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Smart Data Collective

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

You may not have thought about creative professionals having a strong foundation in data analytics. However, the world has changed, which means that a background in big data and other types of technology is equally important. Data-driven businesses need to keep this in mind when looking for creative professionals.

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IBM Big Data Hub

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Being a data-driven organization goes well beyond building a modern data architecture. For CDOs and other leaders within different lines of business, this means fostering a culture that prioritizes data literacy : the ability to read, understand, create and communicate data.

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 10, 2022

Data analytics technology is rapidly becoming a more integral part of many company cultures. According to the 2021 State of Data Maturity Report, 32% of companies have formal data strategies. Data analytics serves many different purposes. Using Data Analytics Can Help Create a Better Company Culture.

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AWS Big Data

APRIL 19, 2023

Data mesh is a new approach to data management. Companies across industries are using a data mesh to decentralize data management to improve data agility and get value from data. This is especially true in a large enterprise with thousands of data products.

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Sisense

MARCH 19, 2021

Twenty years ago, no one had heard of a chief data officer. Now the position is central to C-suites in a majority of major companies (65% in NewVantage Partners’ 2021 survey). That being said, odds are if you’re an executive reading this, you’re thinking about adding a data executive of some kind to your team. (Or

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datapine

JANUARY 24, 2021

In our cutthroat digital age, the importance of setting the right data analysis questions can define the overall success of a business. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis. That being said, it seems like we’re in the midst of a data analysis crisis.

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Cloudera

JANUARY 5, 2023

In the past year, businesses who doubled down on digital transformation during the pandemic saw their efforts coming to fruition in the form of cost savings and more streamlined data management. 1- Treating data as a strategic business asset . 2- Operationalizing adaptive AI systems for quicker business decision-making.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 15, 2022

The importance of data-driven insights may dominate C-level discussions, but evolving IT culture and business workflows that can successfully harness that data is less about talk and more about iterative action. They must also promote data as a shared business asset with value to drive agility and profitability.

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Alation

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

In a previous blog post I wrote about the concept of data accessibility: how an ever-growing number of successful organizations are increasingly using data to help make more intelligent business decisions. By now, we’re all familiar with how self-service data can drive business intelligence that helps the bottom line.

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Ontotext

MARCH 8, 2023

Gartner predicts that graph technologies will be used in 80% of data and analytics innovations by 2025, up from 10% in 2021. Use Case #1: Customer 360 / Enterprise 360 Customer data is typically spread across multiple applications, departments, and regions. Several factors are driving the adoption of knowledge graphs.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

For decades organizations chased the Holy Grail of a centralized data warehouse/lake strategy to support business intelligence and advanced analytics. billion connected Internet of Things (IoT) devices by 2025, generating almost 80 billion zettabytes of data at the edge. According to IDC estimates , there will be 55.7

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Alation

MAY 3, 2022

In a couple of weeks (May 17–19) the Alation team joins one of our favorite data events of the year: Tableau Conference 2022. Yet there’s still an alarming gap between finding data… and using it. Yet there’s still an alarming gap between finding data… and using it. Mind the (Data Accessibility) Gap. The result?

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Smart Data Collective

MAY 27, 2021

With online data acquisition on the rise, we are treading into mostly uncharted waters. Industry-wide regulations in web scraping and other forms of automated data collection are practically non-existent and we probably shouldn’t expect any in the near future. Non-)Public data.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MAY 24, 2022

Data has always been fundamental to business, but as organisations continue to move to Cloud based environments coupled with advances in technology like streaming and real-time analytics, building a data driven business is one of the keys to success. There are many attributes a data-driven organisation possesses.

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AWS Big Data

NOVEMBER 14, 2023

Data is a key strategic asset for every organization, and every company is a data business at its core. However, in many organizations, data is typically spread across a number of different systems such as software as a service (SaaS) applications, operational databases, and data warehouses.

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Cloudera

MARCH 17, 2022

Data is the true currency of the digital age, and it plays an indispensable role in defining and accelerating the mission of Government agencies. . Every level of government is awash in data (both structured and unstructured) that is perpetually in motion. The Value of Public Sector Data. The First Leg of the Data Journey.

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Cloudera

JUNE 24, 2022

Much of the hype around big data and analytics focuses on business value and bottom-line impacts. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals —like making the world a better place — possible. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals —like making the world a better place — possible. US Census ).

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CIO Business Intelligence

JULY 13, 2022

Much of the hype around big data and analytics focuses on business value and bottom-line impacts. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals—like making the world a better place—possible. Data makes the most ambitious and even idealistic goals—like making the world a better place—possible.

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CIO Business Intelligence

MARCH 31, 2022

The chief data officer (CDO) is a senior executive responsible for the utilization and governance of data across the organization. While the chief data officer title is often shortened to CDO, the role should not be confused with that of the chief digital officer , which is also frequently referred to as CDO.

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Cloudera

SEPTEMBER 10, 2020

Underlying digital transformation and investment decisions is a precious asset: data. Now more than ever, decision-makers are looking to do more with their data. This is because the majority of IT departments find it near impossible to just ‘ramp up’ data use, and even more difficult to do so at scale.

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AWS Big Data

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

The Analytics specialty practice of AWS Professional Services (AWS ProServe) helps customers across the globe with modern data architecture implementations on the AWS Cloud. In this post, we discuss a common use case in relation to operational data processing and the solution we built using Apache Hudi and AWS Glue.

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Alation

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Alation recently attended AWS re:invent 2021 … in person! Unburdening IT from infrastructure management has driven an amazing transformation; today, mission-critical applications run across 80 regions in the world, using thousands of services on over 475 instance types. Re:Invent 2021 Keynote by AWS CEO Adam Selipsky.

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Cloudera

DECEMBER 21, 2020

Our annual Data Impact Awards are all about celebrating organizations that are unlocking the maximum value from their data in order to drive the business forward. One category that highlighted some fantastic examples of customers doing just that, was The Enterprise Data Cloud award. million and has 10,000 employees.

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BI-Survey

FEBRUARY 23, 2023

“Data culture eats data strategy for breakfast” has become a popular saying among data and analytics managers and executives. Even the best data strategy cannot fulfill its potential if the data culture in the company does not match it.

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Andrew White

APRIL 12, 2021

Ever year our data and analytic conferences develop a theme. These themes capture the moment, the focus and thinking for data and analytics at the time. Late last year our newly minted research storyline for data and analytics was unveiled and it is called re-engineering the decision. Informed by external happenings.

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AWS Big Data

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

This data is used in procuring devices’ inventory to meet Amazon customers’ demands. With data volumes exhibiting a double-digit percentage growth rate year on year and the COVID pandemic disrupting global logistics in 2021, it became more critical to scale and generate near-real-time data.

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Sisense

MAY 11, 2021

You can’t talk about data analytics without talking about data modeling. The reasons for this are simple: Before you can start analyzing data, huge datasets like data lakes must be modeled or transformed to be usable. Building the right data model is an important part of your data strategy.

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CIO Business Intelligence

JUNE 14, 2022

For years, IT and data leaders have been striving to help their companies become more data driven. But technology investment alone is not enough to make your organization data driven. A lot of organizations have tried to treat data as a project,” says Traci Gusher, EY Americas data and analytics leader. “It

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 6, 2022

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax. I’ve been a data practitioner responsible for the delivery of data management strategies in financial services, online retail, and just about everything in between. But established execution patterns help the operating model, strategy, and vision stay on track.

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DataKitchen

APRIL 26, 2021

In early April 2021, DataKItchen sat down with Jonathan Hodges, VP Data Management & Analytics, at Workiva ; Chuck Smith, VP of R&D Data Strategy at GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) ; and Chris Bergh, CEO and Head Chef at DataKitchen, to find out about their enterprise DataOps transformation journey, including key successes and lessons learned.

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Cloudera

JULY 20, 2021

Most businesses, whether you are in Retail, Manufacturing, Specialty Chemicals, Telecommunications, consider a 10% market capitalization increase from 2020 to 2021 outstanding. Technology drives the ability to use enterprise data to make choices, decisions and investments – which then produce competitive advantage.

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Sisense

MARCH 17, 2021

But the data suggests a significant gap between these aspirations and the reality. According to the research , the majority of companies acknowledge the strategic importance of data analytics, but they aren’t making analytics widely accessible or easy to use for their workers. Their aspirations for the technology are lofty.

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Alation

JUNE 29, 2021

The fourth quarterly Alation State of Data Culture report was just released. As the economy continues to strengthen and organizations shift towards post-pandemic revival, the June 2021 report reflects organizations’ desire to capitalize on available growth opportunities. Data Fuels Growth, but Only if It’s Available.

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CIO Business Intelligence

APRIL 25, 2022

By George Trujillo, Principal Data Strategist, DataStax. Similarly, many organizations have built data architectures to remain competitive, but have instead ended up with a complex web of disparate systems which may be slowing them down. The challenge of data silos. Aligning data. Think about your favorite recipe.

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